Questions tagged [gifts]
Gifts are sometimes given in an academic environment, for example, a grad student may give a gift to their advisor/supervisor.
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(When) Is it appropriate to give a "thank you" gifts to a professor who is not your advisor or teacher?
As a grad student (or postdoc), past taking classes, is it ok to get a thank you gift for a professor who :
has helped you with something (e.g. introduced you to someone for a collaboration or wrote ...
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Having lunch with my advisor and his wife after graduation [duplicate]
I have a lovely professor who I've become very close with over the past three years. I am an international student and we are both from the same original culture.
I recently finished my master's and ...
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Buying a gift for my PhD student after his graduation
All posts here on the "graduation gift" subject are about a gift from the PhD candidate to the professor (after the graduation of course). What about a gift for the student from the ...
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How should I thank mentors that I connect with via the Internet?
I am an incoming undergraduate student, and I have reached out to people who are currently pursuing/once pursued the field that I'm interested in (it's physics if it matters), via the Internet. Most ...
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Accepting An Academic Gift From Supervisor
I have developed a good working relationship with my supervisor and I have expressed my interest in wanting to pursue a PhD in the field that I am working in for my masters degree. I have expressed ...
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Giving a Professor a Gift After They Inadvertently Suggested I Do So
I know it has been asked several times on here whether giving a professor a gift is appropriate or not. The general consensus seems to be that it is unethical to both give and receive the gift [1] [2] ...
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What to buy for my British phd supervisor for christmas? [duplicate]
I want to buy a gift for my lovely Ph.D. supervisor for Christmas. But as I am a foreigner and we don't celebrate Christmas in our country, I have no idea. Could somebody please help me?
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Is it unethical to give a gift to my professor who might potentially write me a LOR?
Undergrad going to apply for graduate school. I recently came back from a trip where I got some goodies - I thought it would be nice to give some of my favorite professors gifts. However, I am now ...
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Taking my Ph.D. advisor out for dinner after graduation
I recently finished my Ph.D. in the U.S. and will be leaving soon for a job in industry. I have got a precious gift for my advisor as I really admire him and he is one of my role models and totally ...
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When an academic researcher receives a gift funding from an industry partner, does the academic researcher's university take a cut?
When an academic researcher receives a gift funding from an industry partner, does the academic researcher's university take a cut, or does the academic researcher receives the entire gift funding?
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Should I give professor gift at the beginning of my PhD?
I will be in a PhD program in Germany in which the first year of the program consists of only studying courses under several different professors.
Some people suggested me that I should give gift to ...
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Gift for mentor after his thesis defense?
I'm attending the thesis defense of one of my undergrad mentors this week. I owe almost everything about where I am today to him. I want to get him a gift, but I'm not sure what. He owns his own ...
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How to remind professor of a gift that they promised but haven't delivered?
I answered a challenging question in one of my courses by e-mail. The professor replied that I won a gift card for buying stuff from the university.
It has been 2 months he has not issued the gift ...
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Receiving gift from student before grading MSc thesis. Is it ethical?
As a follow up on this question I am wondering whether it is ethical to receive gifts from students before grading their MSc thesis (or any other project where students feel like they need to thank ...
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Should I get my chair a card/small going away gift although she has never been there for me?
I'm a first year Master's student that works under the supervision of my thesis chair. At first, I was really excited to work with my chair because she is known as one of the nicest people & best ...
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